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An ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a… — Sharon Salzberg
My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society,… — Thomas Jefferson
Chance generally favors the prudent. — Joseph Joubert
[N]o scientist likes to be criticized. ... But you don't reply to critics: "Wait a minute, wait a minute; this is a really good idea.… — Carl Sagan
"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment of men, who… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is… — Teresa of Avila
Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind. — Louis Pasteur
All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being… — Anita Brookner
A favor is half granted, when graciously refused. — Jonathan Swift
Technology favors horrible people. — Douglas Coupland
Death is sometimes a punishment, often a gift; to many it has been a favor. — Seneca the Younger
As I watch government at all levels daily eat away at our freedom, I keep thinking how prosperity and government largesse have combined to make… — Lyn Nofziger
This is the Day in which God's most excellent favors have been poured out upon men, the Day in which His most mighty grace hath… — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
Try stuff. I also used to believe that it's better to be smart than lucky because if you're smart you can out-think the competition. I… — Guy Kawasaki
When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to… — Ayn Rand
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of government… — Ayn Rand
I favor free trade in drugs for the same reason the Founding Fathers favored free trade in ideas: in a free society it is none… — Thomas Szasz
Political leaders in capitalist countries who cheer the collapse of socialism in other countries continue to favor socialist solutions in their own. They know the… — Milton Friedman
The universe gives to those who ask without favor. The electric plug which connects you is desire. — Walter Russell
I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I… — Mark Twain
While the nature of Texas fever is by no means made clear as yet, we are able to affirm that ticks can produce it. Whether… — Theobald Smith
We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems,… — George Washington
The alternative which I favor is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it is a taboo… — Richard Dawkins
Today, almost half a century after the publication of the Encyclical [of Pius IX], new knowledge has led to the recognition in the theory of… — Pope John Paul II

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